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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dakkareth" data-source="post: 1282343" data-attributes="member: 9928">Mmhh ...hard to say. What brought on the track of the fantasy genre were the Tales of the Nibelung (sp?) and all the connected tales of old German folklore closely followed by the Greek mythology (both thick books I used to read over and over again). After that came science-fiction and eventually a bigger focus on fantasy and the 'conversion' to DnD with the discovery of Baldurs Gate 2. Of course I devoured  the whole fantasy section of our library somewhere in between these steps. That my parents were against my preference of that genre may had its own influence, too <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />. LotR came late and too early at the same time - much later than for many others here, but apparently to early for me to appreciate. I've wanted to read it again (and this time for real) for years, but circumstances conspire ... :SBut I see, this thread is about total influence, not a chronic of my ascent to addiction <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />. In this case I'll have name Tolkien indirectly as main influence for the literature that influenced me most. One other writer must also be mentioned, Steven Erikson, whose grim and all-to 'realistic' fantasy has influenced me very much.</blockquote>

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